Understanding and predicting the rules that govern this complex folding process - - involving the folding of the main backbone and the packing of the molecular side chains of the amino acids - - is one of the central problems of biology 了解蛋白质的折叠和与其它分子的相互作用以及它的功能将可能有利于找到对付人类疾病的药物或治疗方法。
